Angela Cartwright Net Worth

Angela Cartwright's Quotes

• Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me. My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!
• [advice to parents trying to get their children into show business] Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are. When I was a young kid I thought everyone my age went to work everyday and was on television [I started when I was 3]. As I got older I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world. My parents kept me in check. I had to make my bed, set the table and do my chores every day but those things were balanced with getting to laugh and be a kid, too.
• [asked how she wanted people to remember her] I hope they'll remember a character I played that touched people's lives in a positive way. I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly--in a good way!
• I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like The Sound of Music (1965) from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with--that hold memories for them--and it's a cool feeling.
• [on her on- and off-screen chemistry with Danny Thomas, who played Danny Williams] Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together [with him]. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television. He was very loud and gregarious, but he always listened to me, too. He let me use the names of my real friends in the show: he wanted it to be real for me.'

Interesting Facts about Angela Cartwright

1. Younger sister of Veronica Cartwright, sister-in-law of Richard Compton.
2. Children: Becca Gullion (b. 1981) and Jesse Gullion (b. 1985).
3. Distant cousin of The Sound of Music (1965) co-star Heather Menzies-Urich.
4. Angela and her sister, Veronica Cartwright, have both acted alongside Kym Karath. Veronica in Spencer's Mountain (1963) and Angela in The Sound of Music (1965) and an episode of Lost in Space (1965).
5. Born in England but grew up in America.
6. Is a fan of 24 (2001).
7. Introduced The Sound of Music (1965) co-star Heather Menzies-Urich to The Beatles.
8. Did her own singing in The Sound of Music (1965).
9. At her studio in Studio City, CA, she is curator of an exclusively black-&-white photography gallery and is a founding member of the 4260 Black & White Photography Guild.
10. In early 2007 Angela partnered with artist Sarah Fishburn to co-author the book "In This House - A Collection of Altered Art Imagery and Collage Techniques". Her second book "Mixed Emulsions - Altered Art for Photographic Imagery" was released in November 2007.
11. Has taught classes on her art techniques.
12. Has a line of rubber stamps called "Unruly Girls Club" which are made from Angela's sketches.
13. Angela Cartwright Artist Papers, recently released, are collections of her images as artist papers, vellums and transparencies.
14. Tested for a part in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) which eventually went to Pamela Franklin.
15. A photography buff since age 15.
16. Best known by the public for her roles as Linda Williams on Make Room for Daddy (1953) and as Penny Robinson on Lost in Space (1965).
17. Ex-sister-in-law of Richard Gates.
18. Her acting mentors were the late Danny Thomas and the late Jonathan Harris.
19. It was Irwin Allen's idea for her to be Penny Robinson on Lost in Space (1965).
20. Her parrot was named after Danny Thomas.